Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

Crimson events

If you’ve been a Windows administrator for any period of time, it’s likely that you are very familiar with the event log. Windows Server 2008 provides two sets of logs. The Windows Logs are those that feature in previous versions of Windows (Application, Security, and System) and are intended to capture events that apply to the entire system. A separate category of logs called Application and Services Logs capture “crimson channel” or application-level events. Figure 8-32 shows an example of how Exchange 2010 uses these events to capture operational and debug details of high-availability events, in this instance the transition of a database copy to a healthy state.

Exchange 2010 uses the HighAvailability channel to capture startup ...